Damia Group
Finance Transformation Lead
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Finance Transformation Lead
Location: Leeds (however, remote working may be considered if needed, provided the candidate can travel to Leeds regularly with travel expenses included within their day rate)
Duration: 4 weeks full-time + 6 months x1 day per month
Target Start Date: early November
Role purpose
We are seeking an experienced Finance Transformation professional to advise the Chief Financial Officer of a Financial Services organisation on their transformation roadmap. The successful candidate will combine strong finance transformation expertise with hands-on experience and insights on what other finance functions of financial services organisations are doing across the below service lines:
- Procurement & Supplier Management
- Cash & Payment Operations
- Reporting & Control
- Financial Insight & Planning
- Treasury & balance Sheet Management
- Credit Analytics
You will work with senior Finance Management, CFO as well as Technology and business stakeholders to design and implement more efficient, controlled and insight-led finance functions.
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Key responsibilities
- Review Finance Transformation roadmaps
- Share insights from hands-on experience on what other financial services organisations are doing to achieve similar objectives, lessons learned and pre-empt potential issues based on previous experience
- Act as a critical friend to senior stakeholders, opening issues before they arise and tackling difficult conversations with sensitivity and empathy
- Contribute to workshops with industry perspectives
Experience and qualifications
Essential:
- Significant experience delivering Finance Transformation programmes within Financial Services.
- Experience working with banks, insurers, building societies, asset managers, payments firms or other regulated financial institutions.
- Strong understanding of finance processes, operating models, controls, reporting and data.
- Proven experience managing complex, multi-workstream transformation programmes.
- Experience working across Finance, Risk, Operations, Technology and business functions.
- Strong understanding of regulatory and control environments within Financial Services.
- Experience with finance systems, reporting tools, data platforms or process automation.
- Excellent stakeholder management, communication and influencing skills.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving and delivery capabilities.
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Desirable:
- Professional finance qualification such as ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent.
- Experience with ERP, EPM or reporting platforms such as Databricks, Jade, Helix, SAP, Oracle, Workday, Anaplan, OneStream, Power BI or Tableau.
- Consulting, advisory or experience leading enterprise-wide change programmes.
Key competencies
- Strategic thinking with strong commercial awareness
- Finance and operating model expertise
- Programme and delivery management
- Process improvement and transformation design
- Technology and data understanding
- Risk, controls and regulatory awareness
- Influencing and senior stakeholder management
- Clear written and verbal communication
- Collaborative leadership
- Resilience, ownership and a results-focused mindset
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